San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid) researcher Ignacio Arganda and working for MIT, is one of innovators of an open source platform, ‘Fiji’, that facilitates application sharing as a means to advance biomedical-image processing.
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Arganda describes Fiji as a culmination of 20 global innovators and serves to be a de facto standard that fosters further development of precise products.
Along with other researchers, Ignacio Arganda has implemented Fiji, a platform through which applications can be shared, thereby promoting processing and analysis of biomedical imaging.
This platform is a successor of ImageJ that can be accessed by everyone. Arganda said that this application enables medical imaging professionals to create small software applications for determining specific problems followed by integrating within platform via a plug-in. In addition to biomedical-imaging, the application can support astronomical images, in video tracking, and beyond. "In a spontaneous manner and without any help" the researchers can develop new open source platform that can revolutionize the way the work has been carried out.
Around 20 developers are voluntarily working to improve the platform.
A microscope company contacted Arganda who is now works on automatic learning systems that target detecting the edges of neurons from electronic microscope images in MIT. The developed applications have been incorporated within the platform.
The researcher envisions that Fiji can bring a revolution to biomedical-imaging companies such as integration of microscope firms with large laboratories.